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116. The Seaside Travellers

Some travellers, journeying along the
sea-shore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distance what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbour. But as the object on which they looke
d was driven by the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship. When however it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of them said to his
companions, "We have waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to see but a fagot."

Men's anticipations of life outrun its realities.
116. 海滨的旅行者
几个旅人,沿着海边散步,他们爬到一块高岩石上,从那里眺望海面,看见远处有一样东西,他们当作是一艘大船,便等待着,希望看它进港。 但是当他们所看的东西,逐渐被风吹近岸边的时候,他们发觉它顶多只是一艘小划船,而不是大船。 然而当它靠近岸边时,他们发现它只是一大捆柴,于是他们之中有一个人对他的同伴说:「我们等候得一无所获,因为等到末了,除了一捆柴之外,我们什么都没有看见。」
我们对于生命的预期,总是抱太大的希望了。



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